Burke, senior director at Girls for Gender Equity in Brooklyn, started #MeToo a decade ago to raise awareness about sexual violence. Last fall, after women began speaking out against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and others, actress-activist Alyssa Milano tweeted: “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet.” The hashtag was tweeted nearly a million times in 48 hours. Last year, Time magazine named “The Silence Breakers” – those who have shared their stories about sexual assault and harassment – as the magazine’s Person of the Year.

Ronan Farrow is a human rights lawyer and an award-winning investigative journalist. He is a Rhodes Scholar, served as a State Department diplomat in Afghanistan and Pakistan, founded the Today show’s “#Undercovered” series, and has twice been named one of the “30 Under 30” most influential people in law and policy by Forbes magazine.

The James and Coralie Centofanti Foundation donated $1 million to YSU in 2012 to establish the Centofanti Center of Health and Welfare for Vulnerable Populations at the Bitonte College of Health and Human Services.

Last fall, the foundation pledged an additional $500,000 to help support the Centofanti Symposium at YSU. The symposium has brought an array of nationally- and internationally-recognized speakers to Youngstown over the last five years, including Gloria Steinem, Ben Carson and W. Kamau Bell.

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